America Quote by Walker Percy

The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than…

— Idina Menzel

I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to…

— El Anatsui

“When you’re in the wild, there’s nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or credentials or…

— Shannon M Mullen

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum…

— Anonymous

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild…

— Rem Koolhaas

I believe that human beings shouldn't live in climates that they cannot survive naked... and New York, although full of energy and heart, does…

— Sean Baker

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

— Willa Cather

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so…

— Henry Miller

I grew up in a big sky country. Then I lived in Manhattan, where you can only see the sky between buildings, and then…

— Linda Ronstadt

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan…

— Bryan Burrough

“This much freedom leaves you on your own. More Americans than ever before live alone, but even a family can exist in isolation, just…

— George Packer

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald